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PCI Compliance & Why You Need to be Compliant |

Getting paid is just as important as PCI compliance. Businesses of all sizes rely on cash flow to effectively manage business operations. To ensure you are paid by clients in a timely manner, it’s important to provide them with payment options – with one of the most convenient being credit cards.

If your business accepts credit card payments, then you need to understand PCI compliance and its importance, how to become PCI compliant and the repercussions of failing to do so.

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3 Risks of Ignoring PCI Compliance | blog,pci | Control Gap

With more than 510 million records containing sensitive information breached since January 2005, statistics indicate that cardholder data breaches are on the rise, and criminals are increasingly targeting small and medium businesses to obtain cardholder information. To help protect consumers’ payment data the payment card industry created PCI compliance.

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Is Your Payment Application Ready to Leap to PA-DSS Version 3.2?

With the release of PA-DSS 3.2, on June 8th, the PCI Council has provided sunset dates for PA-DSS 3.1 applications and application listing. Key item to note is that ROVs and changes for payment applications validated according to PA-DSS v3.1 may be submitted through 31 August 2016.  As of 1 September 2016, all new ROVs must be validated according to PA-DSS v3.2.

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